Peanut Products to Still Be Wary Of

With the ever expanding recall of peanut related food products, it’s no wonder that I got so paranoid last week that I threw out of a couple glass jars of Planters roasted peanuts.  I remember my boyfriend complaining that he had eaten a few handfulls of them a couple of times and though it was odd that he had gastrointestinal discomfort and his belly got enormous and uncomfortable for hours afterwards, but we didn’t think anything of it at the time because it was about a month ago and none of the salmonella warnings had taken place yet.

I thought maybe he had developed a peanut allergy of some sort, because he said it happened to him both times he ate peanuts, and that still may be true, but I find it strange that it never happened when he ate peanuts before, especially since we practically subsisted off of them when we were doing the low carb diet thing a couple years back and he didn’t have any issues.

Well, there are tons of products now on the salmonella peanut recall list, including candy bars, diet and nutrition bars, peanut butter, and most any other product that even has traces of the nuts in them.  So far, six people have died, and an untold number of people have been affected with salmonella poisoning, and the peanut plant that is blamed for the outbreak has apparently laid off most of it’s workers which made a peanut paste and manufactured the peanuts and shut down production.

It’s too bad this had to happen.  Salmonella usually does not affect those that are in good health, but it can attack those that are younger and have not developed strong immune systems yet, and it can be particularly dangerous to the elderly.